| 72nd Venice International Film Festival | |
| Opening: | Everest |
| Closing: | Mr. Six |
| Location: | Venice, Italy |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Awards: | Golden Lion |
| Host: | Elisa Sednaoui |
| Date: | 2 – 12 September 2015 |
| Website: | Website |
| Chronology: | Venice Film Festival |
| Preceded By: | 71st |
| Followed By: | 73rd |
The 72nd annual Venice International Film Festival took place from 2 to 12 September 2015.[1] Alfonso Cuarón served as the president of the jury for the main competition.[2] A restored version of Federico Fellini's film Amarcord was shown at the festival.[3] The Venezuelan film From Afar by Lorenzo Vigas won the Golden Lion award.
Everest was selected as the festival's opening night film,[4] while Guan Hu's drama film Mr. Six served as the closing night film.[5] Actress and director Elisa Sednaoui hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the festival.[6]
The festival poster featured Nastassja Kinski in front as reminiscent of Wim Wenders's Faraway, So Close!,[7] while in the background it featured the character of Antoine Doinel portrayed by Jean-Pierre Léaud from François Truffaut's 1959 drama film The 400 Blows, which also appeared on the 71st Venice International Film Festival poster.[8]
The festival honoured Brian De Palma with Glory to the Filmmaker Award and a documentary film titled De Palma by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow also screened at the festival.[9] Jonathan Demme received the Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award, who also served as the President of Horizons (Orizzonti) section jury.[10]
The following people formed the 2015 juries:[11] [12]
The following films were selected for the main competition:[13] [14] [15]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Minutes | 11 minut | data-sort-value="Skolimowsk" | Poland, Ireland | ||||
| Anomalisa | data-sort-value="Kaufman" | United States | |||||
| Beasts of No Nation | data-sort-value="Fukunaga" | ||||||
| Behemoth | 悲兮魔兽 | data-sort-value="Liang" | China | ||||
| A Bigger Splash | data-sort-value="Guadagnino" | Italy, France | |||||
| Blood of My Blood | Sangue del mio sangue | data-sort-value="Bellocchio" | Italy | ||||
| data-sort-value="Clan" | The Clan | data-sort-value="Clan" | El Clan | data-sort-value="Trapero" | Argentina, Spain | ||
| Courted | data-sort-value="Hermine" | L'Hermine | data-sort-value="Vincent" | France | |||
| The Danish Girl | data-sort-value="Hooper" | United Kingdom, United States | |||||
| The Endless River | data-sort-value="Hermanus" | South Africa, France | |||||
| Equals | data-sort-value="Doremus" | United States | |||||
| Per amor vostro | data-sort-value="Gaudino" | Italy, France | |||||
| Francofonia | data-sort-value="Sokurov" | France, Germany, Netherlands | |||||
| Frenzy | Abluka | data-sort-value="Alper" | Turkey, France, Qatar | ||||
| From Afar | Desde allá | data-sort-value="Vigas" | Lorenzo Vigas | Venezuela | |||
| Heart of a Dog | data-sort-value="Anderson" | United States | |||||
| Looking for Grace | data-sort-value="Brooks" | Australia | |||||
| Marguerite | data-sort-value="Giannoli" | France, Czech Republic, Belgium | |||||
| Rabin, the Last Day | data-sort-value="Gitai" | Israel, France | |||||
| Remember | data-sort-value="Egoyan" | Canada, Germany | |||||
| data-sort-value="Wait" | The Wait | data-sort-value="Attesa" | L'attesa | data-sort-value="Messina" | Italy, France | ||
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[16] [17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | |||||
| Afternoon | 那日下午 | data-sort-value="Ming" | Taiwan | ||
| Black Mass | data-sort-value="Cooper" | United States | |||
| Bleak Street | data-sort-value="Calle" | La calle de la Amargura | data-sort-value="Ripstein" | Mexico, Spain | |
| Don't Be Bad | Non essere cattivo | data-sort-value="Caligari" | Italy | ||
| Everest (opening film) | data-sort-value="Kormakur" | United Kingdom, United States, Iceland | |||
| Blackway | Go with Me | data-sort-value="Alfredson" | Canada, United States, Sweden | ||
| Mr. Six (closing film) | 老炮儿 | data-sort-value="Hu" | China | ||
| Spotlight | data-sort-value="McCarthy" | United States | |||
| Non Fiction | |||||
| De Palma | Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow | United States | |||
| L'esercito piu piccolo del mondo | Gianfranco Pannone | Vatican, Italy | |||
| The Event | Событие | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, Belgium | ||
| I ricordi del fiume | Franco Maresco | Italy | |||
| In Jackson Heights | Frederick Wiseman | United States, France | |||
| Amy J. Berg | United States | ||||
| Gli uomini di questa città io non li conosco | Franco Maresco | Italy | |||
| Зима у вогні: Боротьба України за свободу | Evgeny Afineevsky | Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom | |||
| Special Screening | |||||
| Human | Yann Arthus-Bertrand | France | |||
The following feature films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | ||||||
| Burning Love | Pecore In Erba | data-sort-value="Caviglia" | Alberto Caviglia | Italy | ||
| The Childhood of a Leader | data-sort-value="Corbet" | United States, United Kingdom, Hungary, Sweden, France, Canada, Belgium | ||||
| A Copy of My Mind | data-sort-value="Anwar" | Indonesia, South Korea | ||||
| data-sort-value="War" | A War | Krigen | data-sort-value="Lindholm" | Denmark | ||
| Neon Bull | Boi Neon | data-sort-value="Mascaro" | Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands | |||
| Wednesday, May 9 | چهارشنبه ۱۹ اردیبهشت | data-sort-value="Jalilvand" | Iran | |||
| Free in Deed | data-sort-value="Mahaffy" | Jake Mahaffy | United States, New Zealand | |||
| Visaranai | விசாரணை | India | ||||
| Interruption | data-sort-value="Zois" | Yorgos Zois | Greece, France, Croatia | |||
| Italian Gangsters | data-sort-value="De Maria" | Italy | ||||
| Kill Me Please | Mate-Me Por Favor | data-sort-value="Da Silveira" | Anita Rocha Da Silveira | Brazil, Argentina | ||
| Land Legs | Tempête | data-sort-value="Collardey" | France | |||
| Madame Courage | data-sort-value="Allouache" | Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates | ||||
| Man Down | data-sort-value="Montiel" | United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Monster" | A Monster with a Thousand Heads | data-sort-value="Monstruo" | Un monstruo de mil cabezas | data-sort-value="Pla" | Mexico | |
| Mountain | Ha'har | data-sort-value="Kayam" | Israel | |||
| Taj Mahal | data-sort-value="Saada" | Nicolas Saada | France, Belgium | |||
| Tharlo | 塔洛 | data-sort-value="Tseden" | China | |||
| Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me | Lama Azavtani | data-sort-value="Morag" | Hadar Morag | Israel, France | ||
| Short Films - Competition | ||||||
| 55 Pills | 55 Pastillas | Sebastián Muro | Argentina | |||
| Backyards | Dvorišta | Ivan Salatic | Montenegro | |||
| Chatting | Lonce Marlonce | Singapore | ||||
| Champ des possibles | Cristina Picchi | Canada | ||||
| En defensa Propia | Mariana Arriaga | Mexico | ||||
| E.T.E.R.N.I.T. | Giovanni Aloi | France | ||||
| It Seems to Hang on | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | ||||
| Monkey | Hou | Jie Shen | China | |||
| New Eyes | Hiwot Admasu Getaneh | France, Germany, United Kingdom | ||||
| Oh Gallow Lay | Julian Wayser | United States | ||||
| Tarântula | Aly Muritiba, Marja Calafanje | Brazil | ||||
| Violences en Réunion | Karim Boukercha | France | ||||
| The Young Man Who Came from the Chee River | Jer gun muer rao jer gun | Wichanon Somunjarn | Thailand | |||
| Short Films - Out of Competition | ||||||
| Zero | David Victori | United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico | ||||
The following selection of restored classic films and documentaries on cinema were screened for this section:[19]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restored Films | ||||||
| Alexander Nevsky (1938) | Александр Невский | data-sort-value="Eisenstein" | Soviet Union | |||
| Amarcord (1973) | data-sort-value="Fellini" | Italy | ||||
| Le Beau Serge (1958) | data-sort-value="Chabrol" | France | ||||
| data-sort-value="Boys" | The Boys from Fengkuei (1983) | 風櫃來的人 | data-sort-value="Hsiao" | Taiwan | ||
| Hardly a Criminal (1949) | Apenas un delincuente | data-sort-value="Fregonese" | Argentina | |||
| Heaven Can Wait (1943) | data-sort-value="Lubitsch" | United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Leon" | Léon Morin, Priest (1961) | data-sort-value="Leon" | Léon Morin, prêtre | data-sort-value="Melville" | Jean-Pierre Melville | France |
| La lupa (1953) | data-sort-value="Lattuada" | Italy | ||||
| A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | data-sort-value="Powell" | United Kingdom | ||||
| The Merchant of Venice (1969) | data-sort-value="Welles" | United States | ||||
| I Mostri (aka Opiate '67, 1963) | data-sort-value="Risi" | Italy | ||||
| Othello (1951) | The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice | data-sort-value="Welles" | Italy, France, United States | |||
| The Power and the Glory (1933) | data-sort-value="Howard" | United States | ||||
| Ray of Sunshine (1933) | Sonnenstrahl | data-sort-value="Fejos" | Germany, Austria | |||
| Red Beard (1965) | 赤ひげ | data-sort-value="Kurosawa" | Japan | |||
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | data-sort-value="Pasolini" | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy | ||
| data-sort-value="Thirsty" | The Thirsty One (1957) | प्यासा / Pyaasa | data-sort-value="Dutt" | India | ||
| To Sleep with Anger (1990) | data-sort-value="Burnett" | United States | ||||
| The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932) | data-sort-value="Howard" | |||||
| Umut (1970) | data-sort-value="Guney" | Turkey | ||||
| We Want the Colonels (1973) | Vogliamo i colonnelli | data-sort-value="Monicelli" | Italy | |||
| White Paws (1949) | Pattes blanches | data-sort-value="Gremillon" | France | |||
| Documentaries about cinema | ||||||
| The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin | Yves Montmayeur | France | ||||
| Alfredo Bini, the Unexpected Guest | Alfredo Bini, ospite inatteso | Simone Isola | Italy | |||
| Behind the White Glasses | Dietro gli occhiali bianchi | Valerio Ruiz | ||||
| A Flickering Truth | Pietra Brettkelly | New Zealand, Afghanistan | ||||
| For the Love of a Man | Rinku Kalsy | India | ||||
| Helmut Berger, Actor | Andreas Horvath | Austria | ||||
| Jacques Tourneur le médium: filmer l'invisible | Alain Mazars | France | ||||
| Mifune: The Last Samurai | Steven Okazaki | Japan | ||||
| Venise (1912) | (Unknown) | France | ||||
The following films were screened for the "Biennale College - Cinema" section, a higher education training workshop for micro-budget feature films:[20]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baby Bump | Kuba Czekaj | Poland | ||
| Blanka | Kohki Hasei | Japan, Italy | ||
| The Fits | United States | |||
The following films were screened for the "Final Cut in Venice" section, a workshop to support the post-production of films from Africa:[21]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali, the Goat, and Ibrahim | Ali Mea'za We Ibrahim | data-sort-value="Elbendary" | Sherif Elbendary | Egypt | |
| House in the Fields | Tigmi Nigren | data-sort-value="Hadid" | Morocco | ||
| Path of Paradise | Tarik Al-Jenah | data-sort-value="Al-Daradji" | Atia Al-Daradji | Iraq | |
| Rooster of Beirut | Deek Beirut | data-sort-value="Kalthoum" | Ziad Kalthoum | Syria | |
| Separation | Havibon | data-sort-value="Abdulqadir" | Hakar Abdulqadir | Iraq | |
| Zaineb Hates the Snow | Zaineb Takrahou Ethelj | data-sort-value="Ben Hania" | Tunisia |
The following feature films were selected for the Il Cinema nel Giardino section:[22]
| data-sort-type="number" | Screening | Title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Sep | Carlo Lizzani, Il mio cinema | data-sort-value="Torelli" | Roberto Torelli, Cristina Torelli, Paolo Luciani | Italy |
| 6 Sep | Al centro del cinema | data-sort-value="Caruso" | Gianandrea Caruso, Chiara Dainese, Davide Minotti, Bernardo Pellegrini, Maria Tilli | |
| 8 Sep | ZAC - I Fiori del MALE | data-sort-value="Denaro" | Massimo Denaro | |
| 9 Sep | Torn (Torn - Strappati) | data-sort-value="Gassmann" | ||
| 10 Sep | Where is the Goldfish? (Il pesce rosso dov'è?) | data-sort-value="Sgarbi" | Elisabetta Sgarbi | |
| 11 Sep | Il decalogo di Vasco | data-sort-value="Masi" | Fabio Masi |
The following films were selected for the 29th Venice International Film Critics' Week:[23] [24]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||||
| Banat (The Journey) | Banat | data-sort-value="Valerio" | Adriano Valerio | Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia | |
| data-sort-value="Black" | Kalo Pothi | data-sort-value="Bham" | Nepal, France, Germany | ||
| Light Years | data-sort-value="Campbell" | Esther May Campbell | United Kingdom | ||
| Mountain | Montanha | data-sort-value="Salaviza" | Portugal, France | ||
| Motherland | Ana Yurdu | data-sort-value="Tuzen" | Turkey, Greece | ||
| The Return | data-sort-value="Zeng" | Green Zeng | Singapore | ||
| Tanna | data-sort-value="Butler" | Australia | |||
| Special Events - Out of competition | |||||
| The Family (Pre-Opening) | Jia | Shumin Liu | China, Australia | ||
| Orphan (Opening Film) | Peter Mullan | United Kingdom | |||
| Bagnoli Jungle (Closing Film) | Antonio Capuano | Italy | |||
The following films were selected for the 12th edition of the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) section:[25] [26]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | ||||||
| Arianna | data-sort-value="Lavagna" | Carlo Lavagna | Italy | |||
| As I Open My Eyes | À peine j'ouvre les yeux | data-sort-value="Bouzid" | France, Tunisia, Belgium, United Arab Emirates | |||
| The Daughter | data-sort-value="Stone" | Australia | ||||
| Early Winter | data-sort-value="Rowe" | Australia, Canada | ||||
| First Light | data-sort-value="Prima" | La prima luce | data-sort-value="Marra" | Italy | ||
| Island City | data-sort-value="Oberoi" | Ruchika Oberoi | India | |||
| Klezmer | data-sort-value="Chrzan" | Piotr Chrzan | Poland | |||
| Lolo | data-sort-value="Delpy" | France | ||||
| Long Live the Bride | Viva la sposa | data-sort-value="Celestini" | Ascanio Celestini | Italy, France, Belgium | ||
| data-sort-value="Memory" | The Memory of Water | data-sort-value="Memoria" | La memoria del agua | data-sort-value="Bize" | Chile, Spain, Argentina, Germany | |
| Retribution | data-sort-value="Desconocido" | El desconocido | data-sort-value="Torre" | Dani de la Torre | Spain | |
| Underground Fragrance | Pengfei | France, China | ||||
| Special events | ||||||
| Argentina | Zonda, folclore argentino | Carlos Saura | Argentina, Spain, France | |||
| Harry's Bar | Carlotta Cerquetti | Italy | ||||
| Innocence of Memories - Orhan Pamuk's Museum and Istanbul | Grant Gee | United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy | ||||
| Ma | Celia Rowlson-Hall | United States | ||||
| Milano 2015 | Elio, Roberto Bolle, Silvio Soldini, Walter Veltroni, Cristiana Capotondi, Giorgio Diritti | Italy | ||||
| Viva Ingrid | Alessandro Rossellini | |||||
| Miu Miu Women's Tales | ||||||
| Les 3 Boutons | Agnès Varda | France, Italy | ||||
| De Djess | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy | ||||
| Special projects | ||||||
| Bangland | Lorenzo Berghella | Italy | ||||
| The Country Where Trees Fly. Eugenio Barba and the Days of Odin | Il paese dove gli alberi volano. Eugenio Barba e i giorni dell'Odin | Davide Barletti, Jacopo Quadri | ||||
| Dreams of the Salt Lake | I sogni del lago salato | Andrea Segre | ||||
| Lux Prize | ||||||
| Mediterranea | Jonas Carpignano | Italy, United States, Germany, France, Qatar | ||||
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar | ||||
| The Lesson | Urok | Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov | Bulgaria, Greece | |||
The following Official Awards were presented at the 72nd edition:[27] [28]
Anomalisa by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
Valeria Golino for Per amor vostro
Abraham Attah for Beasts of No Nation
Frenzy by Emin Alper
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[33]
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection: